AMRAP - 7 mins
10 clean squats
20 situps (feet anchored and full range)
20kgs...106 reps..3+16 breakdown
Oh.my.god. I think I have found something I hate more than wall balls. Clean squats. I practised doing them with Rob and a broomstick and eventually got the hang of the motion. Then I went to do it with a 20kg bar and doing them slow is fine, but then when I did it during the actual WOD my form was poor and my back hurt and I had to end up subbing sumo deadlift high pulls.
7 mins seems like such a short time but I was exhausted after and really felt like I was going to vomit. Then after all that we had to do 30 burpees and 30 floor to overhead lifts. 30 burpees were fine (well not really but I can do them even if I look like an idiot) but the lifts... wow. I just could not lift that bloody 20kg bar over my head. Rob again came over and helped me out and broke it down for me, corrected my form and I managed to do it.
Last nights session really made me feel rubbish - I know I have only been doing crossfit for like 2 weeks but it annoys me that I am so crap at it and I just wish my brain would catch up and get the movements. I feel so unco and get upset with myself but have to remember that I am there to get better, to get fitter and stronger. I don't go there cause I'm perfect I go there to learn. I won't ever give up and I will be back there on Thursday smashing out a WOD even if I am the worst, the most unco and last - I can only get better!
Dont worry! the olympic movements will just "click" all of a sudden and you will get your timing. Sometimes its hard with the broom stick to get it because there is not enough weight.
ReplyDeleteYou'll be fine.. just think of Europe!
Nath